INTELLECTUAL

The son of Michael and Julia (Hannon) Tracy.
He came to the US with his parents when three years old, locating in Island
Pond, Essex county, Vt., where his parents lived. He attended St. Sulpie
College, Montreal, and St. Charles College near Baltimore, and was graduated
from McGill College, Montreal, in 1873. He began the practice of medicine in
Island Pond, Vt. Since November, 1875, he has practiced in Meriden. He married
Margaret, daughter of Edward Broderick, of Willimantic, Conn.

Physician.
Mayor of Meriden, Connecticut in 1892. Active member of St. Rose's Church.
Husband of Ell Broderick. Predeceased by daughter Molly.

Andrew W.
Tracy, M.D., Meriden, Conn. ; McGill University, Montreal, 1873 ; aged 71;
Democrat, member of the Connecticut State Medical Society ; mayor of Meriden in
1892, and a member of the city council for two terms ; died at his home,
December 10 [Jour A.M.A. Dec 29, 1917]

Born into a musical family in
Waterford, Ireland, I experienced an eclectic range of music during my
formative years having attended everything from Waterford’s annual festival
of Light Opera to “Spraoi”, a celebration of street music and art as well as
traditional sessions of Irish music in pubs throughout Ireland. Along the way
I also developed a keen interest in history. Currently I am working on French
and English music c.1300-c.1450 analysing compositional style in the Old Hall
Manuscript, Ms. Ivrea, and the Apt manuscript. I am also exploring issues of
patronage and political commentary in the early poetry (pre- Canterbury
Tales) of Geoffrey Chaucer and the music and poetry of Guillaume de Machaut
including Le Remede de Fortune, and Le Jugement de Roi de Behaingne. Other
interests include performance aspects of Medieval English Drama and I have
worked specifically on the function of music in York 45: The Assumption of
the Virgin. In addition, I have produced medieval plays for The Granary
Theatre, University College Cork, including Fulgens and Lucres and Adam de la
Halle’s Jeu de Robin et Marion. In addition, I am director of the University
of Wolverhampton’s Early Music Ensemble, Réaltanna, which performs a
repertoire of both instrumental and vocal music from the medieval and
renaissance periods. Increasingly Réaltanna are also extending their
repertoire to include both traditional Irish folktunes and compositions by
contemporary Irish composers such as Michael McGlynn and Shaun Davey

1997. MA in Medieval Music &
English Literature. National University of Ireland: University College Cork.
(2.1)

1995. BA in Music and English.
University of Ireland: University College Cork. (2.1).

Pictured at the launch of the Authority of Scripture in
Christ Church Cathedral are the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd Dr Robin Eames,
the Bishop of Meath & Kildare, the Most Revd Richard Clarke and Fr
Bernard Treacy.

Director of Public Prosecutions Q.C., J.P. ended his
career as Attorney General, Republic of Rhodesia, 1975-1980, replaced by the
Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Mr. Mugabe.

Who's who of Rhodesia, Mauritius, Central and
East Africa, 1971

Who's who of Southern Africa by International
Publications Service. Published by Argus Printing & Publishing Co., 1976

Brendan Treacy, in 1973, decided to collect photographs
and negatives to have a pictorial record of Nenagh. The likelihood is that but
for his initiative so many photographic reproductions of Nenagh, of the distant
and not so distant past, of its people, its occasions and events, would have
been lost, never to have been brought to the surface again. Five books based on
the collections of photographers Samuel J. Bernal, Kevin O'C Bernal, Lewy P.
Gleeson, William J. Heaney, Tommy Lynch, Jack Ryan, Pat Stephens and others
have been published. He is a retired County Council official.

'Looking Back: a pictorial history of Nenagh spanning one hundred years'
(2005)

'Moments in Time:a pictorial history of Nenagh' (2006)

'Cherished Memories of Nenagh' (2007)

‘Nenagh through the mists of time’ (2009)

Fr. Brian Treacy from just outside Kilmallock, Co.
Limerick. He has been working in Kenya since 1965 and is a member of the Kiltegan
Fathers, a missionary order based in County Wicklow. In 2008, his church in Londiani in North West
Kenya, was caught up in the recent
violence but he insists he will not be returning home as he is safe and not
in immediate danger.

Catherine Tracey, PhD, M.B.A,
MSc, RGN, RPN, of Dublin, former acting Course Co-ordinator and Lecturer in
Trinity College Dublin. She has worked extensively with Hospitaller Order of
St. John, where she was Director of Nursing for ten years. She also worked in
St. Luke’s Hospital as Lecturer and acting course Co-ordinator in the
postgraduate diploma in oncological nursing.

Catherine Treacy, former
Registrar of Deeds and Titles is the first Chief Executive of the Property
Registration Authority (PRA) founded in 2006. As Chief Executive and
Registrar of Deeds and Titles of the Land Registry and Registry of Deeds for
Ireland. She was a member of the implementation group of Secretaries General
and Heads of Office charged with the practical implementation and future
development of the Strategic Management Initiative in the Public
Service. A barrister by profession, she also holds an MSc (Management) degree
from Trinity College, Dublin.

Catherine Treacy, as Chief Executive
and Registrar of Deeds and Titles of the Land Registry Office received her
award as the Overall Winner of the Irish eGovernment Awards 2005. L-R.
Minister Tom Kitt TD, Oliver Ryan Director of Reach and Catherine Treacy Land
Registry Office.

A dually qualified RGN and RMN with over 20 years of clinical
experience, Colm has worked in number of clinical settings in the UK and
abroad. He has experience in lecturing across various undergraduate and
postgraduate courses, in a range of subject areas. His main teaching focus is
around the care and management of patients with
long-term conditions, particularly inherited neurological conditions,
inherited dementias & enduring neuropsychiatric problems.

Before joining Kingston and St George’s Joint Faculty of
Health, Social Care and Education, Colm worked at City University London and
was an honorary CNS (secondee) at Barts Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Colman Maurice Treacy (b. 28 July 1949 Dublin), the son of Dr. Maurice Colman
Treacy (b. 1920 Mountrath, Laois, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O.N.U.I. 1944) and Mary T.
Frisby, who were married in Birmingham in 1945. He attended Stonyhurst
College, a Jesuit independent boarding school in the Ribble Valley,
Lancashire, and studied Law on
an Open Scholarship at Jesus College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar by
Middle Temple in 1971. He practised from chambers in Birmingham and was head
of chambers from 1994 to 2000. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1990, a
Recorder in 1991 and to the High Court Bench in 2002. He was Presiding Judge
on the Midland Circuit from 2006 to 2009. As a High
Court Judge he has sat in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division, the
Divisional Court, the Queen’s Bench Division, and the Administrative Court
and is a Visitor to the Inns of Court. In 2010, he became a member of the
Sentencing Council for England and Wales. In November 2013 he became chairman of the Sentencing Council.

Professional
profile: Ronan Treacy became a consultant at the famous Royal Orthopaedic
Hospital in 1994 specialising in hip replacement surgery. He is especially
well known for his pioneering work with Mr McMinn when they developed, what
is known as "Birmingham Hip Replacement" which has transformed the
hip replacement procedure.

David Tracy
(1939-) of Yonkers New York and Chicago, Roman Catholic Theologian, whose
family came from Ireland

Donncha Ó Treasaigh is the principal of Ghaelcholáiste
Luimnigh (Irish College Limerick). He is a native of Cappamore,
and attended St. Fintan’s C.B.S., Doon, Co. Limerick. He graduated from Mary
Immaculate College/University of Limerick in 1998 and completed the Higher
Diploma in Education in NUI Maynooth. In 2000 he graduated with a postgraduate
degree in ICT from NUI Maynooth. He has earned significant acclaim in the
field of ICT and has been involved at National level in several programmes
relating to teachers’ professional development. He is also an editor
for the NCTE on various publications. In recent months he has been involved
with the NCCA in relation to ICT in Irish education. He is a member of the
Management committee of the Limerick Education Centre and has delivered
courses to both Primary and Post-Primary teachers through the Education
Centre network since 1999.

Frank Tracy was born in the Liberties in Dublin in 1943. He was
educated at James’ Street CBS and University College Galway from which he graduated
with a B.A. in Celtic Archaeology in 1967. He has spent most of his working
life in the Public Service. A keen hillwalker and lifelong member of the
scout movement, he is an active scout leader in the Merchants’ Quay, Dublin
scout troop. He also has a keen interest in local history and archaeology
which led, among other things, to this study of the family history of Lord
Massy of Duntrileague. A father of five adult children, he lives with his
wife Bernie in Stillorgan, Co. Dublin.

Tracy,
Frank. If those trees could speak: The story of an ascendancy family in
Ireland. Dublin: South Dublin Libraries, 2007.Size: 2.4M bytesModified: 18 June 2009,
14:41

Travelling to the parish of
Killakee, in the Dublin Mountains, historian Frank Tracy toured the grounds
of the Massy Estate for this recording, beginning at the beehive cottage.
Lord Massy and his wife spent 35 years living here. Frank outlined the
genealogy of the family and walked through the now wooded area to where the
original grand house stood. He continued on to the walled garden area where
he compared some 19th century photographs with its mostly wooded landscape
today.

Mrs Jeanie Kildare Tracy (1852?-1912) from County Tipperary
qualified at the City of Dublin Hospital when the nursing profession was new in
Ireland, and was among its earliest students. She was appointed Superintendant
of the City of Dublin Nursing Institution in Upper Baggot Street after a year
or two of staff work, in succession to Miss Fitzgerald who sudden demise from
influenza. She was also President of the INA.

Women in Ireland, 1800-1918:
A Documentary History by
Maria Luddy

The medical profession in Cork has suffered a great loss by the death,
at the early age of 38, of Dr. James J. Tracy, which occurred at his
residence in Cork, on December 26th, 1901. His health had for some time
caused anxiety to his friends, but no one thought the end so near.

He graduated in I890 in the Royal University, Ireland, after a
distinguished career in Queen's College, Cork, after which he practised for a
short period in England. On returning to Cork he was appointed to the medical
staff of the Mercy Hospital, first as Surgeon, but later he resigned this
appointment for that of Physician. His medical skill was of a high order, and
much appreciated by his colleagues and patients. His powers of diagnosis were
quite exceptional, and his treatment of difficult cases showed a
highly-trained and cultured intelligence. A meeting of the medical staff of
the Mercy Hospital held on December 3oth passed the following resolution:

That we wish to
place on record our sense of the irreparable loss the medical staff of the
hospital have sustained by the death of our esteemed colleague, Dr. James J.
Tracy.

He was honorary treasurer of
the Cork Medical and Surgical Society for several years, and piloted the
finances of that Society through a most critical period in a manner that secured to him
the admiration and confidence of the members and this Society at a
specially-convened meeting held on December 30th passed the following
resolution:

That we, the members of the Cork Medical and
Surgical Society, have learned with extreme regret of the untimely death of our
able and valued colleague, Dr. Tracy, who acted as our Treasurer for many
years, and who, devoted himself with untiring zeal of this interest s of this
Society, as well as to those of the profession generally.

Although in failing
health, his keen interest in the matters relating to his profession never
flagged. He was present and joined in the discussions at a recent meeting of
the Medical Society. Dr. Tracy was unmarried. The funeral took place on
Saturday, December 28th, 1901, the large attendance of his colleagues and
general public testifying to the esteem in which he was held.

11 January 1902. Obituary.
British Medical Journal (BMJ)

James J. Treacy renowned writer and editor
of Roman Catholic publications. Two of his books received a benediction from Pope Leo XIII.

James Power Treacy, RR Rev, MGR, Clergyman and Editor of 161 Annette
St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was born 13 May 1868, in Cappawhite Co.
Tipperary. He was educated at St. Vincent's College, Castleknock, County
Dublin; also at the Royal University, Dublin, from which he received the gold
medal scientia et religione; in 1888 he went to Rome to the Canadian College
for a special course in Philosophy; remained there until 1893; studied under
Lorenzelli and Sbarretti, and in 1889 received the degree of Ph.D. from the
Academy of St. Thomas; studied theology under the late Cardinal Satolli and
was ordained in 1892; and in 1893 took the degree of S.T.D. He was pastor of
St. Patrick's Church from 1894-1913. He was rector of St. Patrick's Church,
Dixie, Ontario, Canada 1904; and served as one of the official secretaries to
the first Plenary Council of Canada in 1909; also theologian at Council. In
1913 was appointed parish priest of St. Cecilia's Church, Toronto; He contributed
editorial articles to the Catholic Register, Toronto, and to other religious
and secular papers in Canada; is editor of the Question Box on Catholic
Register, Toronto, and has written for various magazines in the United States
and Canada. In 1895 Father Treacy accompanied the late Archbishop Walsh of
Toronto, to Europe and traveled extensively in Great Britain, Ireland and the
continent. In 1907 he returned to Rome, had a private audience with Pope Pius
X, also with Cardinal Merry Del Val and Cardinal Satolli, visited Naples,
Vesuvius, Loretto, London, France and his family home in Ireland. He died in
Toronto, Canada Nov 23, 1946.

One of the earliest Catholic settlements
of Nebraska was founded in Dakota County in 1855 by a group under the
leadership of Reverend J. F. Tracy. It was known as Saint Patrick Settlement,
and from his church of Saint John, Father Tracy attended similar colonies in
Omaha, and in Nebraska City.

Rev. Jeremiah F. Tracy was born
in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, in 1821, came to America with his parents
in 1831, and grew to manhood in Lancaster, Pa, where the family settled.
After finishing his studies he was principal of the high school there for a
few years. During the Know Nothing riots in Philadelphia in 1843-1844, he was
honoured by being appointed one of the guards to protect the churches from
destruction. In 1849 he entered the Catholic school for young men at Chicago,
where after hard study and close application he received minor orders from
Bishop Quarters, but was stricken with pneumonia and advised by the doctors
to seek a more congenial climate away from the lakes. He went to Dubuque
where he was adopted by Bishop Loras and finished his studies at the old St.
Bernard’s college, Table Mound, and was ordained on June 24, 1850. At that
time the cholera was raging in Dubuque and the young priest remained with his
Bishop all that year and part of the next, unselfishly ministering to the
spiritual and physical necessities of the sick and dying. In many stricken
families Father Tracy’s name was a household word, and many now holding
exalted positions and living in fine homes in Dubuque and other parts of
Iowa, are children for whom he provided homes when their parents were
stricken down with the cholera. Many times did he and the good Bishop Loras
go without food for long periods so completely was their time taken up with
ministering to the wants of the sick and dying

In the fall of 1851 he was
appointed pastor of Garryown, Jackson county, Iowa, a large Irish Catholic
settlement, where he built the large, substantial stone church, 50 by 105
feet, which is still used by that large parish. He also established a
parochial school, which is still taught by the Sisters of Charity. In June,
1855, Father Tracy and his brother
John crossed the state of Iowa and the Missouri River and explored the
country and selected the site for his colony, which he brought there the
following year. Returning to Dubuque he tried to induce some of the settlers
around there to go to Nebraska, but they evidently thought they were far
enough west already. He went east to find recruits for his colony, and while
pursuing this work he met much opposition, particularly from Archbishop
Hughes of New York, who denounced him and his scheme to take his innocent
countrymen into the wilds of the west, where they might starve or suffer
other untold misfortunes. This shows how great men may be mistaken in their
views, as the Archbishop was by preferring to see the Irish immigrants remain
in the slums of the great cities, subject to all their contaminating
influences, instead of coming west to enjoy the pure air and glorious
sunshine of the prairies, to live happy and virtuous lives, while enjoying
the greatest degree of material prosperity as the members of this colony
certainly did. Father Tracy made a canvass in the New England states, where
he secured a number of recruits and the next spring started with them for
Nebraska, coming from Dubuque by wagon, fording streams and rivers, and
enduring great hardships in crossing the hitherto untrodden prairies. On June
1, 1856, they crossed the Missouri River at Sioux City and on the next day
reached the selected site, which he named St. Johns, about a mile and a half
north and east of the present site of Jackson. There were eighteen wagons and
about sixty people in all, including his single brother John. Others followed the same year and the
following years the colony grew to be a large and prosperous one.

For a short time mass was celebrated in a tent, but as soon as
possible a log church was erected, which was later replaced by a frame
structure. After getting the church and parish well established, Father Tracy
looked around for scattered Catholics wherever he could find them. In June
1857 he celebrated the first Mass in Sioux City. In 1858 he founded a church
in Council Bluffs, the first one erected there for white settlers. He visited
points along the Missouri River as far north as Fort Randall.

After about four years of this strenuous life, his health failed and
he left St Johns in 1860, and after remaining in Sioux City for a few months
went south to the diocese of Mobile and was appointed pastor at Huntsville,
Ala. During the Civil War he served as chaplin in General Rosecran’s army,
but did not confine his ministrations to the Federal ranks alone, crossing
and recrossing the lines, wherever he found sick and dying soldiers. After
the war he returned to Mobile diocese, working until 1879 when he was striken
with paralysis. He was taken to the Alexian Brother's Hospital in St. Louis
where he passed away nine years later, March 1889.

The old town site for which Father Tracy had great expectations is
now a farm and the only indication that it had existed is the cemetery on the
hill overlooking it which is still used as "the city of the dead."

Potter, George W. (1960) To the golden door; the story of the Irish in
Ireland and America. Little, Brown and Co., Boston.

Jack
Treacy (Lecturer in
physical chemistry, School of Chemistry, Dublin Institute of Technology)

John
Gerard Patrick Tracey, of
Belfast, Ph.D. and musician.

John “Larry” Tracey has researched Irish
dialectology with the Irish & Celtic department at the School of Modern Languages
at QUB.Having completed a BA (2009)
and MA (2010) in Irish & Celtic Studies, he returned in 2011/12 to
undertake a doctorate. His PhD project involved exploring the native Irish
Gaelic dialect of County Down in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Relatively little is known or has been
published about this dialect of Irish.He researched and gathered a corpus of texts from this region and era,
and examined them for linguistic features which would shed light on the
nature of the dialect of Down, and also reveal more about its relationship
with neighbouring dialects in the theoretical Gaelic linguistic continuum.

He is also a tutor to undergraduate
students in the Irish & Celtic department, and had previously worked
alongside the School of Education as a research assistant.

He
is also part of a musical duo called FretWear, playing contemporary blues and
acoustic music

A PhD graduate in Naval History at Mary Immaculate
College. His thesis was entitled ‘Irish Naval Service Operations 1946-84:
Victims of Circumstance or Architects of their own decline?’ John is a
History Department tutor in Mary Immaculate & also lectures in the
development of Irish Naval policy at the Centre for Military History and
Strategic Studies at NUI Maynooth.

He has participated in naval and defence conference
proceedings both nationally and internationally.

Most Reverend John P. Treacy, S.T.D., LL.D.: Bishop Treacy
was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts, July 23, 1890, the only child of John
Tracy and Ann O'Kane, and grandson of Patrick Treacy & Hanora Gallagher
of Fuerty, Roscommon.

He founded the Holy Cross Seminary in La Crosse and
oversaw the construction of the new Cathedral. In a lighthearted way people
speak of him as “Jack the Builder.” Yet, the La Crosse Tribune, at the time
of his death, wrote, “He established 47 new churches (including the
Cathedral), 47 new rectories, 43 new convents, 42 new schools, and a
seminary.”

Reverend Joseph Vincent Tracy (1860-1947), DD, b. at Mountmellick, Ireland, 26
August, 1860, son of Edward Tracy, of Cashel, Ireland. Education: at
Hawes Hale and Bigelow public schools, Boston; Boston College; Holy Cross
College, Worcester (A.B., 1882) ; St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy, N. Y.; St.
John's Seminary, Boston. Ordained priest by the Most Rev. John J. Williams,
Archbishop of Boston, February 24, 1886. S.T.D. St. Mary's Seminary,
Baltimore, 1898; received the title of Missionary Apostolic from Pope Leo
XIII, 1903. Spent the earliest years of his priesthood in Florida and
Minnesota; in 1889 was assigned to the parish of the Most Precious Blood,
Hyde Park, Mass.; teacher of Holy Scripture at St. Mary's Seminary,
Baltimore, 1890-88; in 1898 was recalled to Boston to teach the New Testament
at St. John's Seminary and act as local director of the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith. Through his efforts, branches of this society were
organized in more than one hundred parishes and over $84,000 collected for
missions within four and a half years. In 1906 he read a paper before the
annual meeting of the Arch-bishops, entitled The Catholic Church in the
United States, and its mission work, in which a plan for a national
mission-support organization covering all mission needs was outlined.
Appointed Rector of St. Anthony's Parish, Allston, 1907; Rector of St.
Columbian's, Brighton District, Boston, since 1907. Has contributed to the
Sacred Heart Review, Catholic World, American Catholic Quarterly,
Ecclesiastical Review. Address: Rector, St. Columbkill's, Brighton District,
Boston, Mass.

The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers.
The Encylopedia [!] press, inc.,1911& 1917

He died
12 February 1947 [see Laois].

Dr. Josephine Treacy

Dr Josephine Treacy
is a lecturer in Environmental Analytical Science at LIT since 2003. She has
worked with Cork County Council for several years in the area of environmental
management, monitoring and control. She has post‐doctorate experience in waste resource remediation
using supercritical fluid.

NCEA Diploma Chemical
Instrumentation

H.Dip Environmental
Analytical Chemistry

MSc Environmental
Analytical Science

PhD Environmental
Analytical Science (2003)

Josephine Treacy earned her
undergraduate degree in chemical instrumentation at the Limerick Institute of
Technology, Ireland. After graduating, she worked with the Cork County Council
environmental sector in the area of pollution control and management. She
earned her :[Sc and PhD at University College Cork, Ireland, in the area of
environmental analytical science while working with the Cork County Council .

Her research interests Include
environmental, ecosystems, monitoring and management, drinking water treatment,
waste- water treatment, and river catchment surveys. Other research interests
include sensor deployment and validation for air and water applications,
including biofouling elimination and prevention on sensors. Recently, Dr.
Treacy earned an M.Ed. in adult and further education at. Mary Immaculate
College University of Limerick

Saeid Eslamian (2016) Urban Water
Reuse Handbook

Descendants of Teague Trassey
of Maryland, one of the earliest immigrants from Ireland in 1655 to Virginia.

Joshua Irving Tracey was born on 19 Aug 1883 in Maryland,
the son of Joshua Tracey and Lavinia Jane Wheeler. He married Grace Resh on
25 Jun 1914. He died on 7 Oct 1961 in New Haven, CT and was buried in
Beaverdale Memorial Cemetery, New Haven

Mary Jane "Jerry" Mann
Mary Jane Mann, 87, Peterborough, New Hampshire, known to her friends as
"Jerry," died on February 19, 2007, at RiverMead.
Mrs. Mann was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 28, 1919, the
daughter of Grace (Resh) and Dr. Joshua I. Tracey. She received a B.A. from
Connecticut College for Women in 1941. On September 16, 1944, she married Dr.
Richard Hess Mann of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where they resided until
she moved to RiverMead, in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1996.
Her husband died in 1987; she is survived by her three children; and four
grandchildren.

A noted geologist
with the U.S. Geological Survey, he was recognized for pioneering studies which
helped support Charles Darwin's theory on the development of atolls. In a
citation for meritorious service, then-Secretary of the Interior Rogers B.
Morton said, "Dr. Tracey's pioneering studies of reef limestone from
drill core, coupled with related investigations, provided the first
conclusive evidence supporting Darwin's classic coral-reef hypothesis.
Through subsequent studies of other central and western Pacific atolls, and
as co-leader of deep-sea coring expeditions, he has become a recognized authority
on island and seafloor movements, geologic history, and mineral resources
including island phosphates and distribution of deep-sea manganese
nodules."

The son of the
late Joshua and Grace Resh Tracey, Dr. Tracey was born May 5, 1915, in New
Haven, Conn., where his father taught mathematics at Yale. He was educated at
the Hopkins Grammar School and went on to Yale University, where he received
his A.B. in physics and mathematics in 1937, his MSc. in geology in 1943, and
his Ph.D. in 1950.

With the outbreak
of World War II, Dr. Tracey joined the United States Geological Survey. He
was sent to Alabama, Georgia and Arkansas exploring for bauxite, the ore for
aluminium, which was critically needed for the war. For two years after the
war, Dr. Tracey worked under Harry Ladd doing core drilling on Bikini Atoll
before and after the atomic bomb tests. From 1951 to 1954, Dr. Tracey served
the USGS as field party chief mapping the geology of Guam, the largest of the
Mariana Islands. While on Guam, Dr. Tracey made surveying trips to Pagan,
Fais and Ifaluk Atolls. During the 1960's, Dr. Tracey was involved with
drilling on Midway Island in conjunction with the Department of Defense, the
Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, and Scripps Institution
of Oceanography.

For several
summers, Dr. Tracey did surveying of the Green River formation in
Southwestern Wyoming. During the 1970's, Dr. Tracey was co-chief with George
H. Sutton doing deep sea drilling in the Pacific on the Glomar Challenger,
sponsored by the Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling.
His other research involved expeditions to Enderbury and Enowetok Islands. He
served as scientific advisor with the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Seabeds
Committee, which met in Geneva in 1971. He also served several years as
chairman for the Geologic Names Committee.Dr. Tracey retired from the USGS in 1985 and was given office space in
the Smithsonian Museum of National History, where he continued to write for
several more years and where his papers were deeded to the Archives in 2002.
Among other scientific and social organizations, he was a member of Sigma Xi,
Geological Society of America, American Association of Petroleum Geologists,
the Explorers Club, the Cosmos Club, a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, and honorary membership in the International
Society for Reef Studies.

Dr. Tracey was a
member of Mt. Vernon Place United Methodist Church in Washington, singing bass
in the choir for over 50 years, having joined during WWII. He was a member of
the Rustin Couples class in the church.

He was survived by
his wife of 58 years, Frances Louise Tracey; two sons, Dan Britton Jones of
Lancaster, Pa., and Douglas Irving Tracey of Flemington, N.J.; eight
grandchildren; six great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mary Jane Mann of
Peterborough, N.H.

Laura
Tracey (B.C.L.), who has been awarded second place in the prestigious
National University of Ireland (NUI)/Denis Phelan Award in Law, 2004. These
awards were based on a competition involving the top three graduating law
students from each of the constituent Universities of the NUI.Laura is now preparing to begin her graduate
studies for a masters degree in Law at Oxford University.The Dean of the Law Faculty, Professor Gerard
Quinn said, "this award is fully deserved and also reflects well on the
quality of teaching provided on our undergraduate law programmes.The competition was tough and Laura has done
us proud.We heartily congratulate Laura
and wish her every success at Oxford".

Biography:
An ordained presbyter of the Order of Friar Servants of Mary (OSM).
Undergraduate studies in Dublin and Rome. Postgraduate studies at the Pontifical
Liturgical Institute, Sant’ Anselmo, Rome. After working in a parish for a
number of years after ordination, I returned to Rome and graduate studies in
liturgy, culminating in a Doctorate. I have taught and lectured in many parts
of Ireland and Australia, Ghana, Italy, UK, and the USA. Member:
Societas Liturgica, Irish Biblical Association, Maynooth Medieval and
Renaissance Forum, Dublin Diocesan Liturgy Commission, Irish Commission for
Liturgy, Secretary to the Editorial Board of the Irish Theological Quarterly.

Research Interests:

Method in the study of Liturgical actions

Liturgy in Early Christian Ireland

The role of liturgy in the Jewish Christian Encounter

Select Publications:

Several articles in Edward Kessler and Neil Wenborn, eds.,
A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2005).

Currently editing papers of a conference on Liturgy and
Music in the Early Irish Church

Current Research:

The Padova School and liturgical theology

The presence of Orthodox communities in Ireland

The Order of Christian Funerals as a ministry of
consolation

Courses: Introduction to Liturgy;
Sacraments of Christian Initiation; Liturgy and Time; Historical Theology;
Foundations of Worship; Liturgy, Sacraments and Pastoral Care; Issues in
Liturgical Theology ; Sources and History of the Roman Liturgy

Professor Margaret (Pearl) Treacy, Professor of the
Department of Nursing Studies, College of Life Sciences, Belfield, University
College Dublin, sociologist and author.

PhD (Lond), MSc
(Econ) (Lond), BA Hons (Lond), RGN.
Professor Margaret Treacy is Director of Graduate Research and School Head of
Research and Innovation, UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems
and the inaugural Professor of Nursing at UCD. She has played a key
leadership role in developing nursing and midwifery education within the
higher education sector in Ireland.

In April 2012,
Professor Pearl Treacy retired after a long and distinguished career in
nursing and academia.

2014 – 2017 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD),
Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Cork

2012 – 2013 Master's degree Public Health
University College Cork

2008 – 2012 Bachelor of Science (BSc), public
health and health promotion, University College Cork

Marsha graduated from the BSc in Public Health and
Health Promotion in 2012. She went on to complete the Masters in Public
Health 2013, specializing in Epidemiology. During the Masters, Marsha worked
as an intern with the ‘UCC Food Choice at Work Study’ where she gained
practical experience in a research setting. Her thesis, ‘Socioeconomic
inequalities of cardiovascular risk factors among manufacturing employees in
Ireland’ utilised baseline data from the study. Marsha’s PhD will focus on
the public health burden of diabetes in Ireland and her supervisory team
includes Dr. Patricia Kearney and Dr. Tony Fitzgerald.

He has over 20 years of post-PhD leadership experience and
has a demonstrated record of innovation in the life science sector, including
biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics. He has
significant C-level experience in Pharma R&D investment, research
management, IP creation, protection & commercialisation, drug
development, business strategy development, business development, company
start-ups, alliance management, M&A activity and venture capital. He has extensively published research
papers and is a co-inventor on over 80 USA patents applications.

Member of the
UCD Governing Authority for the period 01 February 2014 – 31 January 2019
Elected by the UCD Graduates of NUI.

Fr. Michael J. Tracey was born in Killawalla,
Westport, Co. Mayo on the 9th September 1947. He attended St.
Patrick’s National School in Killawalla, St. Mary’s College, Galway and St.
Patrick’s College, Carlow. Most Rev. Joseph B. Brunini D.D. Bishop of
Jackson, Mississippi ordained him as a priest on June 14, 1972 at St.
Patrick’s Catholic Church, Killawalla. He served at Our Lady of the Gulf parish,
Bay St. Louis as Associate Pastor from 1972 to 1976. He served as Associate
Pastor of Nativity B.V.M. parish, Biloxi from 1976 to 1980 when he was
assigned as Associate Pastor of St. James parish, Gulfport until 1984. Fr.
Tracey served as Associate Youth Director of the Diocese of Natchez-Jackson
from 1975 to 1977. When the Diocese of Biloxi was established in 1977, Bishop
Howze appointed Fr. Tracey as its first Director of Youth Ministry. He served
in that capacity from 1977 to 1981. Bishop Howze also appointed him as the
Associate Editor of "Mississippi Today," the weekly Catholic
newspaper for Mississippi Catholics. Fr. Tracey served in that capacity from
1977 to 1979. He has also served as Executive Director of Marriage Encounter
for the diocese as well as a member of the Diocesan Priests Council. He
received a Master degree in Pastoral Ministry from Fordham University, New
York in 1985. He returned to the Diocese of Biloxi in 1985 to become Director
of RENEW, a three-year, small group faith sharing process, for the diocese.
During his tenure as Director, he created several small group faith-sharing
booklets for participants that are being used in various dioceses in the
United States and Canada. Fr. Tracey became pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas
parish at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg in March 1988
and served there until September 2000. Presently, he serves as pastor of Our
Lady of the Gulf parish, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Fr. Tracey wrote a regular column called ‘Rambling
Rhetoric’ for “Mississippi Today” from 1976 to 1982. He began writing a
regular column called ‘Traveling Companion’ for “Gulf Pine Catholic,”
newspaper of the Diocese of Biloxi, in 1988. This column continues today. Fr.
Tracey has written several articles for various national Catholic newspapers
and magazines including “National Catholic Reporter”, “America” magazine and
“The Priest” magazine. In 1996, he published his first novel, ‘Woman of the
Cloth’, published by Town Square Books. The novel reflects one woman’s struggle
for identity and ministry in the Church. He was also a contributing
author to ‘Contemporary Religious Ideas’, published in 1996 by Libraries
Unlimited. His chapter deals with "Catholic Spiritualities for Every
Person." He published "Walking Shoes: A Soul Journey,"
in2002. It is a reflection on
elements in life’s journey. His most recent book, "May the Wind be at
your Back - Reflections in the shade" was published in 2003. His latest
book, published in 2006, is titled "She was no Lady - A personal journey
through Hurricane Katrina" It is the story of his journey of recovery
through Hurricane Katrina, which devastated his parish in late August 2005. He was honored by the Co. Mayo Association of Boston as the
"Mayo Person of the Year" in October 2008 for his work in the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Recently he published an illustrated adult
fable, "The Crooked Christmas Tree" which challenges us to look
deep within to discover each other's inner beauty rather than looking at
people superficially. The book, along with his other books, are available at
amazon.com. or amazon.co.uk. Fr. Tracey retired, after 40 years serving in
Mississippi, in January 2013 and moved to his native country, Ireland . In
his retirement, he continues to write his columns.

According to the
official records the seminary college at Valencia was established in 1628 by
the diocesan priest, Patrick Tracey (sometimes ‘Tressy’), a man whose
achievements were comparable to those of other famous college founders, such
as Christopher Cusack and Theobald Stapleton. Having said this, it is clear
that Tracey was, and has remained, one of the less well-known figures. There
is reason to date the Irish presence at Valencia to a slightly earlier point,
as there was clearly already an Irish community in Valencia before 1628.

In all of this the
key personage was, as stated above, Patrick Tracey, who was a priest of the
ecclesiastical diocese of Tuam in Connacht. From 1621 he was enrolled as a
student at the College at Salamanca, where he studied Theology. In 1627 he
was sent by the Rector of the College at Salamanca to Valencia in order to
found the seminary college there. He later obtained his doctorate at the
University of Valencia. He had scarcely arrived in the city when he met his
compatriots, Malachy Maher (Malaquías Meher), who had obtained his doctorate
in Theology in 1621; he also met and befriended Thaddeus Cleary (‘Tadeo
Clario’) and James Cleary (‘Diego Clario’), who had graduated in the Faculty
of Arts in 1626. Another Irish exile, Patrick Master (‘Patricio Mestre’) also
obtained his doctorate in Theology at Valencia in 1628.

Tracey obtained
the degree of Bachelor of Theology on 17 June 1628 (Jerónimo Agustín Morlá
acting as his sponsor); he went on to obtain the degree of Doctor of Theology
on 23 July 1629, with Francisco Cruílles acting as his sponsor. Tracey
affirms unequivocally in a memorial to the King that he went on to found the
seminary for Irish priests with the blessing of the Superiors of the College at
Salamanca, that is: ‘having gone afterwards by order of his Superiors to the
City of Valencia to establish a seminary of his nation, he did so to great
satisfaction and effect.’ The foundation of a seminary for the training of
diocesan priests was an innovation. Six colleges are known to have existed
between 1550 and 1643, but the Irish did not figure as students in any of
them. From the middle of the 16th century there existed the College of the
Presentation, founded by Tomás de Villanueva, with ten scholarships for
paupers. In 1668 it became a senior college. The College of the Assumption
was another institution in Valencia, offering three scholarships for the
natives of Valencia. The College of the Purification (1572) was a similar
institution, while Juan de Ribera’s College of Corpus Christi (1594) offered
six scholarships for priests and 24 for students. There was also the College
of the Order of Montesa de St George (1606, Colegio de la orden de Montesa de
San Jorge), and finally the College of the Holy Monarchs (1643) for students
of medicine. Based on this information, we must conclude that the first
students of the Irish College at Valencia were either holders of scholarships
from the College of the Purification, or that they set up a college ex novo.
The latter is the most likely explanation.

The Irish students
must have begun to study on an institutional basis around 1623, thanks to the
benevolence and patronage of the Dominican Fray Isidoro de Aliaga, successor
to Juan de Ribera as Archbishop of Valencia (Aliaga served as Archbishop from
1612 to 1648). The Archbishop was responsible for enrolling the first Irish
students, who lived together in a rented house. The college operated without
any recognized institutional structure until the arrival of Tracey from
Salamanca in 1628, the date at which, as we have seen, the seminary was
officially founded. Tracey exuded a certain authority, not only because he
was a graduate of the University of Salamanca but also because he had the
full backing of the College of the Irish at Salamanca. On the other hand his
importance is easily exaggerated: it appears that he spent only a short time
at Valencia, perhaps five years.

A month before
obtaining the degree of Doctor of Theology, Tracey requested a certificate from
the University of Salamanca stating that he had studied Theology from 1627;
his intention was surely that he would later present it to the Council of
State in order to ask for a viaticum to return to Ireland. It was in Madrid
in 1631 that he formally asked for the viaticum, which was granted him in
February of that year ‘from the hand of the Senior Almoner’; accordingly, the
Senior Chaplain of the Palace must have been the person who processed this
merced, as this was the practice in almost all cases.115 However, Tracey did
not go to Ireland, but instead went to the University of Alcalá de Henares in
1632, where the Senate of the University appointed him Rector of the Irish
College which had been founded there by Theobald Stapleton two years
previously. It was surely due to Tracey’s enormous prestige that he was
elected to this position. Antonio Cardinal Barberini, Protector of Ireland,
visited the College of Alcalá de Henares in 1631, and wrote a report on the
Irish Colleges in Spain, dated 4 April 1634. In this report, he details the
state of the colleges at Salamanca, Lisbon, Santiago Seville, Madrid and
Alcalá; he also mentions the College at Valencia, saying that it was founded
around 1624 and that at the time of his writing there were about ten students
living on alms in a single house.

Notwithstanding
Tracey’s claim to have been the founder of the Seminary College at Valencia,
in 1626 Thaddeus Cleary (‘Tadeo Claro’) obtained his doctorate in Theology,
and in 1633 so did Hugh O’Reilly; both students had previously obtained their
degrees in Arts from the same University. It is therefore clear that, in
addition to Tracey, there were two other prominent Irish theologians in Spain
in these years. We cannot determine, until more in-depth research is done in
the Municipal Archive of Valencia, how many Irish graduates of the Faculty of
Theology there were, but we do know from sources in the Archivo General de
Simancas and the Archivo General de Palacio Real about a number of
petitioners who claimed that they had studied at Valencia; indeed information
is also available on Irish students who asked for help in order to be able to
study at the University of Valencia under the patronage of Archbishop Aliaga.

Coordinator, Maths Learning Centre, the National Centre for Excellence
in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning (NCE-MSTL) University of
Limerick, Limerick.

Graduated from the University of Limerick in 2009, earning a BSc in
Physical Education and Mathematics. He completed his PhD in Mathematics
Education in November 2012. Through his PhD research he developed and implemented
a model of teaching which integrates mathematics and science in the classroom
with the central aim of improving practices related to the teaching and
learning of Junior Cycle students. Central to this research was the placement
of topics from mathematics and science in context so that the students could
develop an appreciation for the material they study and develop the skills
and understanding needed to apply this learning in a range of different
scenarios. Páraic is currently working as Coordinator of the Mathematics
Learning Centre in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He also
works closely with the National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and
Science Teaching and Learning (NCE-MSTL) on a range of projects.

Research Interests include problem-based learning; integrating
mathematics with other subjects; learning design; small group instruction and
interaction; teacher education; creating and implementing mathematical rich
tasks in the classroom.

Br. Patrick Ambrose Treacy (1834-1912), Catholic educationist, was born on
31 August 1834 at Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland, the son of William
Treacy and Margaret Ryan. Educated at an academy and the local Christian
Brothers' school at Thurles, he excelled in mathematics. In February 1852 he
joined the Congregation of Christian Brothers, Waterford. After a rigorous
course he was posted to various local schools for experience and also
continued his studies, including part-time courses under the aegis of the
Science Museum, South Kensington. After eight years of teaching at Wexford
schools he became headmaster of the Christian Brothers' schools at Carlow.
Showing administrative skill he achieved high teaching efficiency and
improved school buildings and equipment.

In 1868 Bishop Goold asked for a community of Christian Brothers to establish schools in
Victoria. Treacy was chosen as leader, and with
three confrères arrived in Melbourne in the Donald McKay in November to
find the Catholic school system receiving some state aid, but in a parlous
condition under the control of local parish priests. Treacy
opened a primary school in Lonsdale Street in 1869. When the Education Act of
1872 set up a system of 'free, compulsory and secular' education, controlled
by a state department, the Catholic hierarchy determined to retain and pay
for their own school system. Undaunted by lack of money, Treacy
initiated a colony-wide campaign to finance land and buildings. With generous
help from colonists of all creeds a college was erected in Victoria Parade on
Eastern Hill, Melbourne; opened in January 1871, its final cost was about
£12,000.

In 1881, he was in
Christchurch, New Zealand to open a school: “the Rev. Brother Treacy, Provincial
of the Christian Brothers, has been amongst the guests. Your readers will no
doubt partly conjecture the immediate cause of Bro. Treacy's visit, and
though we have not heard the whole particulars, we are in a position to say
that ere long the good people of Christchurch will have amongst them what
they so much wish for, the now well-known order of Christian Brothers for
their boys.” [11 February 1881 New Zealand Tablet]

Having observed the deplorable state of diocesan schools during his
collecting tours, Treacy advocated to the Catholic
Education Committee a rise in teachers' salaries and a training college. He
offered in the meantime to train as teachers senior boys selected from his
own system. There were no funds for a teachers' college but his further offer
to inspect metropolitan schools was accepted. Treacy's
report on the condition of the system resulted in up-to-date equipment, and
under him the Brothers organized a training scheme for their aspirants. At
first they were trained in the schools, but in 1897 Treacy
decided to use a recent foundation at Lewisham, New South Wales, as a
training centre under a qualified master of method. He also arranged for
several trained Irish Brothers to migrate each year.

Treacy decided to extend the studies of the more
talented of his pupils beyond the primary level and to present them for the
civil service and the matriculation examinations. Small classes at Victoria
Parade College and St Patrick's, Ballarat, taught by Brothers Nugent and
Kennedy respectively, achieved eminent success in these examinations. In the
early days not many boys sat for matriculation, but many entered both the
civil service and commerce. At this time there were no Irish secondary
schools; it was Treacy's initiative and dedication
that shaped the pattern of the Australian Christian Brothers' higher
education without regard to pupils' social or financial standing.

Gifted with great prudence and business acumen, Treacy also acceded to the requests of the hierarchy to open
schools in many parts of Australia. By 1900, when he retired after thirty
years as a provincial superior, he had established twenty-seven schools in
the principal cities of Australia, and one in New Zealand. He was recalled to
Ireland in 1900 as an assistant to the superior-general in Dublin, and
returned to the Australian province in 1910. Although retired, he insisted on
working and was sent to Brisbane in a bid to prolong his years in a warm
climate. He died on 2nd October 1912 in the Brothers' house on the
corner of Gregory Terrace and Rogers Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
A plaque in the former office of the College indicates the death bed of this
outstanding man.

Dr. Patrick
J. Treacy was born in
Garrison, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and studied Biochemistry in
Queen's University Belfast and then Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons,
Dublin Ireland. He is the
Medical Director of the Ailesbury Clinic, Ballsbridge Dublin and
has been involved in minor surgery and cosmetic dermatology for over 18
years. He was winner of the GSK Irish
Medical Professional Journalist of the Year 2003. He is Chairman of
the Irish Association of Cosmetic Doctors and Irish Regional Representative
of the British Association of Cosmetic Medicine. He is Honorary Board Member
of the World Medical Trichologist Association and Honorary Ambassador to the
Michael Jackson Legacy Foundation and the Haiti Leadership Foundation. Dr
Treacy is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of
Arts. (London). He is Chairman of the Ailesbury Humanitarian Foundation and
is the driving force behind countless humanitarian efforts that has opened
orphanages in both Haiti and Liberia the past year. He recently won the
MyFaceMyBody major innovation awards in London (2012-3) for introducing new
techniques in facial rejuvenation and hair transplant and won the AMEC
Doctor's Award in Paris (2014)

Position:
Partner, head of EC and competition law group; expertise in all aspects of
all UK and EC competition law; particular interest in the application of
competition law to the ownership and exercise of intellectual property rights
and to the application of competition law in the media sector; advises on
both contentious and non-contentious aspects of competition law and has
represented clients in proceedings before the European Commission, Court of
First Instance and European Court of Justice.

Research interests include
using X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) to understand the response of roots to
the soil physical environment. During my PhD project I investigated the
response of root system architecture (RSA) to soil compaction. My PhD project
was one of the first to capitalise on technological advancements in CT
scanning and meant I could scan samples faster and at finer resolutions than
previously achievable. In my first year I was able to travel to the
University of Adelaide and gain experience using their CT scanner to look at
wheat root systems. My other PhD experiments focussed on tomato roots and
their response to several soil physical treatments and I measured a variety
of root traits using software developed in collaboration with colleagues in
the School of Computer Science. I also have experience of using destructive
techniques to study roots such as root washing and WinRhizo analysis. My
postdoctoral project has allowed me to investigate the water in the soil and
root water uptake using new techniques and image analysis regimes. It is in
collaboration with mathematical modellers at the University of Southampton
and my experimental data feeds directly into the models they are developing
based on hydraulic movement of water in soil. Going forward I would like to
apply my skills and experience of X-ray CT, soil physics, plant biology and
image analysis to answer further questions about the rhizosphere, whilst
pursuing an academic career.

Dermot Feenan,
School of Law, Fiona Doherty, Barrister-at-Law, Dr Thomas Murphy, Head of
the School of Law, The Honourable Mr Justice Treacy and Dame Nuala
O'Loan

The
Honourable Mr Justice Sir (James Mary) Seamus Treacy

The Honourable Mr Justice
Treacy born 22nd March 1956, was educated at St Malachy’s College
and Queen’s University, Belfast. He was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland
in 1979 and took silk in 1999. He was called to the Bar of Ireland in
September 1990 and to the Inner Bar of Ireland in 2000. Séamus Treacy became
a Judge of the High Court of Judicature in Northern Ireland in January 2007.
Before his elevation to the bench he was an acclaimed expert in human rights,
criminal, public and European law, acting for people from all sides of the
community. He took many pioneering cases to the European Court of Human
Rights and was responsible for many landmark judicial review cases in
Northern Ireland, and also appeared in the Bloody Sunday Inquiry and, before
he became a judge, the Billy Wright Inquiry. He was a close friend of Patrick
Finucane, and they worked together on many important cases. He has delivered
papers and spoken at conferences on human rights, criminal law and fair
employment issues. He was an Arbitrator and Member of the Panel of
Arbitrators of the Motor Insurers’ Bureau.

5th March 2009 Ulster Law School Welcomes Visiting
Professors

The University of Ulster has appointed two of Northern
Ireland’s leading legal figures, Dame Nuala O’Loan and The Honourable
Mr Justice Treacy, as Visiting Professors at its School of Law. Former Police
Ombudsman Dame Nuala and High Court judge Mr Justice Treacy will hold their
new posts until 2012.

Press Notice: Her Majesty the Queen has appointed Mr Seamus Treacy QC SC to be
High Court Judges in Northern Ireland. Both judges were sworn into office
before the Right Honourable Sir Brian Kerr, the Lord Chief Justice of
Northern Ireland, on 29 January 2007. Seamus
Treacy was educated at Queen’s University, Belfast. He was called to the Bar
of Northern Ireland in 1979 and took silk in 1999. He was called to the Bar
of Ireland in September 1990 and to the Inner Bar of Ireland in 2000. Mr
Treacy has practised as a Barrister since 1980, concentrating mainly in human
rights, criminal law, judicial review and public inquiries. He has delivered
papers and spoken at conferences on Human Rights, Criminal Law and Fair
Employment issues. He is an Arbitrator and Member of the Panel of Arbitrators
of the Motor Insurers’ Bureau. He is married with three children.

Irish News report: A Catholic barrister who won a landmark
legal action against a promise to serve the Queen has become a High Court
judge.The appointment of Seamus
Treacy comes seven years after he successfully challenged the declaration
which barristers were required to make before they could join the ranks of
senior barristers known as Queen’s counsel (QC).Mr Treacy and Ben Stephens, also a QC, were
sworn in as judges by the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Brian Kerr, at a private
ceremony at the High Court in Belfast
yesterday. Mr Treacy and another Catholic barrister, Barry Macdonald, were
due to be made QCs in December 1999 but a few days before the ceremony they
mounted their legal challenge. They took issue with a decision by then lord
chancellor Lord Irvine that they must declare they would well and truly serve
Queen Elizabeth II. The barristers claimed the declaration discriminated
against them as nationalists and was an affront to their political
sensibilities. The case led to them boycotting a ceremony at which several of
their colleagues were sworn in as QCs. The ruling in their favour infuriated
unionists but nationalists who welcomed it as giving effect to the Good
Friday Agreement guaranteeing them equality in all aspects of life. A new
declaration was in force when the pair were eventually sworn in as QCs on
September 8 2000. Reference to the Queen had been omitted and instead they
promised to well and truly serve all whom I may lawfully be called upon to
serve.

Tony Tracy is Arts Faculty
Lecturer in Film Studies at NUI, Galway, having previously worked for Miramax
Productions in New York and served as Education Officer of the Irish Film
Centre in Dublin. He is a regular film reviewer for RTÉ ' s Arts Show. His
research includes American and European cinema history, and silent cinema.

Veronica Treacy, President of the Irish Hospital Pharmacists'
Association, 2005

Father William Treacy was born in Ballyquaid,
Killasmeestia, Borris-in-Ossory, Co. Laois in 1919. In 1932, he left for St.
Kieran’s College, Kilkenny, a boarding school 30 miles from his parents’
home. It was during that time that Father Treacy decided to become a priest
and in 1937, entered St. Patrick’s Seminary, Maynooth. He was ordained in
June 1944. In 1945, while the Second World War was still raging, Father
Treacy left for Seattle, Washington to fill a temporary vacancy at St.
Alphonsus Church. In 1989, he retired after 50 years of service in Washington
State. In addition to his duties within his parishes and interfaith projects,
Father Treacy was active in faith-based and service organizations that
provide aid to the poor as well as those in spiritual need, both at home and
overseas. Today, Father Treacy continues to deliver his message of the
importance of service and interfaith communication.

In 1960 Father Treacy was chosen to the Catholic
representative to the award winning interfaith television program, Challenge,
which had been organized by Rabbi Levine. The program aired for fourteen
years. Their friendship sprang from those meetings and together they wrote, Wild
Branch on the Olive Tree, a book about their relationship.Rabbi Levine and Father Treacy were friends
for 25 years.

Rev William Treacy founded the '' Treacy - Levine ''
Centre in 1968 which is situated at Camp Brotherhood, Camp Brotherhood Road,
Mt Vernon, which is hour's drive north of Seattle, USA. Camp Brotherhood is
an inclusive interfaith organization that offers facilities for educational,
spiritual and experiential programs. It fosters harmony in the human family
by inviting dialogue and reaching out to religious, spiritual and secular
groups, communities, youth, families and individuals of all abilities. It
promotes interaction between racial, ethnic, international and cultural
groups, seeking to bring peace and reconciliation by increasing mutual
understanding and compassion.

In 2014, at 95 years of age and marking 70th year of ordination, he was
honoured at a family-style picnic that also celebrated the retreat’s new
name: Treacy Levine Center, in honour of Father Treacy and his friend and
co-founder, the late Rabbi Raphael Levine. The centre, which aims to “foster
harmony in the human family,” offers retreats, programs and conferences that
draw people from the U.S. and other countries. It also highlights veterans’
issues and hosts Marriage Encounter events.

Captain William Treacy is a 747 captain and dedicated
hot-air balloonist who is the present Chief Flying Officer (CFI) with Trim
Flying Club and has a dedicated team of 12 voluntary instructors. (2010)

William
Augustus Treacy (circa 1818 – 1886)

Engineer and county surveyor for the West and East
Ridings of Co. Cork, 1855-1861, for the southern division of Co. Mayo,
1861-1868 and for the southern division of Co. Tyrone, 1868-1869.

The Right
Rev. Monsignor William T. Treacy, Protonotary Apostolic Vicar General of
Wilcania, Australia. He was a native of Roscommon, and was educated at Summer
Hill College, Athlone, and All Hallows Dublin, before his ordination in 1882.
For a number of years he worked as a missionary in Goulburn and Deniliquin,
New South Wales. He was appointed Vicar general of the Diocese of Wilcania in
1889, and on two occasions he was Administrator of the diocese during the
absence of the Bishop. In 1902 he was made a Domestic Prelate to the Pope,
and he returned home from Australia some time ago. He died on the 20th May
1938 in Dublin.